The Starmar Critique of the UK State

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Starmarism critique is partly a structural one about long-standing issues with the fact that the UK state is very, very centralised in Whitehall. But it also reflects a problem which I would argue has become worse since 2016 of a culture. And that culture is one which is short-termist and defined by ministerial inattention. Starmar argues a culture of cynicism of a lack of ambition.

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